Two powerful individuals are combining their efforts and resources in a renewed campaign against the scourge of tobacco: Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City. Despite best efforts to date to change behavior, about one billion people still smoke; half die prematurely from smoking-related causes; and the typical loss of life expectancy […]

  The Lupus Foundation is one of a number of organizations concerned about the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs in favor of compact fluorescents (CFLs) in the wake of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that mandates higher lighting efficiency to be met by 2012-14. The new standard is a conversion efficiency of […]

I was delighted to be able to review this book prior to its recent publication. It is one of the few in recent times to introduce the public to neurofeedback / EEG biofeedback. Paul Swingle is a seasoned biofeedback practitioner, well-known within the field through conferences and workshops. Swingle was for many years the coordinator […]

Untitled Document The seemingly never-ending controversy about the validity of QEEG discriminant functions came up again recently, this time in connection with traumatic brain injury. If a TBI discriminant function is to have validity, then the problem of false negatives and false positives better be a small one. But when it comes to traumatic brain […]

Untitled Document The death of Edwina Froehlich on June 8 brought the La Leche League back into the news. Froehlich had been one of the founders of the group, and the organization was run out of her home for years. It occurred to me on reading her obituary that this group’s experience had some elements […]

Untitled Document The BCIA is currently polling members on the issue of whether certain designations should be trade-marked by the BCIA in order to set it apart from other claimants. This is an issue that might well be discussed more openly before an organizational decision is rendered. One issue that concerns me is that trademarking […]

Practice-Based Evidence We know from electoral politics that it is hard to defeat somebody with nobody. In order to push back against the contagion of Evidence-Based Practice it is not enough to “go negative;” one must field a live candidate. We have in fact been living in a world largely driven by Practice-Based Evidence. This […]

The AAPB has just published the 2008 edition of its publication “Evidence-Based Practice in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback“, written by Carolyn Yucha and Doil Montgomery. This is an update on the 2004 edition. The new publication spruces up the reference list and adds new material. It now comes to 81 pages, whereas the first one was […]